macOS, can I install this 2 year old program?
No, the architecture is no longer supported in this version of macOS
Nope, can’t find this ancient version of libc!
You can still compile it against the modern version.
And if it’s static linked it will either run or you can ask Linus to murder someone for you.
Hmm I’ll email Linus
I was trying to compile the first version of SuperTuxKart just for fun, how naive I were… Nowadays it’s like translating ancient runes and good luck finding those ancient libraries
If I may, is there a way to quickly and easily have a disposable/revertible environment for building? For Fedora specifically. It’s annoying to install a whole suite of packages because I need them just this once and then either manually delete the ones I didn’t manually install before and actually need or just live with a whole bunch of devel packages that’ll never be used again
Distrobox might be the easiest way. If you use a custom HOME directory you can even keep the build artefacts isolated.
You can use docker for that. I think there are even some tools to make it easier to use for that use case, but I just use plain docker for it
I wanted to do the cool neofetch thing all the femboys in thigh highs are doing. Shits already installed on mint. My boring ass win98 clone is doing the femboy thing no questions asked.
Hey. The cool transfems in thigh highs are doing it too.
WIndows will install it. Running it correctly… different story.
I don’t have hard data, but if my experience is at all representative then you’re much more likely to be able to run a 25 year old Windows program on Linux than on Windows.
Initial release of
ddwas for Unix in 1974 and it’s still updated for use in modern systems.I used it just the other day and it was already installed.
Roller Coaster Tycoon came out in 1999 but I notice it didn’t come preinstalled on Mint. Is my install broken? /s
My issues are not install, but uninstall. Why do I have so much crap installed? I used it on a project once 7 years ago and haven’t since. Why not uninstall it? It is useful, just not currently. It took less than a minute to install when you installed it the first time and your connection is faster now? But what if the archive goes down or it is retired or obsolete? It is small, keep it!
Turns out lots of small adds up to big.
Turns out lots of small adds up to big.
Nickel and dimed into a dollar I see
And yet some linux devs look at me using containers for development like I’m the Demon Lord of Overhead
Specially for rolling release distros.
I had fun installing everything I thought of just checking out once, including games and stuff (assets tend to be large).
But after a few updates and not actually using most of them, I realised how much load I was putting on the network and removed many of them.
xdotoolis not already installed, and also will not work 🙄I’m going to miss
xdotool(andwmctrl) when my distro eventually ditches X11.I don’t use them often, but I do use them, and their functionality is nice to have.
There are partial replacements out there, but last I checked, they were very weak approximations.
However you’re on Debian stable and the latest version of the package that came out 24 years ago is still too new.
Windows: can’t run SETUP.EXE as it is a 32 bit program
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Ole’ reliable, vi
We have a 22 year old version of RedHat 4. It works fine and is reliable but has problems with out dated security.
No wayland, missing fuse2, pulseaudio, weird graphics libraries, java…
Java is wholly separate from Linux. In… basically every way possible.
Yeah ok. But java uses weird graphics toolkits. For example many java apps still rely on X11 and look like crap on modern Linux, have no support for fractional scaling etc.
